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Nov 15, 2024 | 
booktrust.org.uk | Renée Watson |Leah Johnson
Published on: 15 November 2024
Author Leah Johnson recommends her favourite stories that celebrate Black girls. When 11-year-old Dally’s grandfather passes away, it feels like she’s also lost a best friend. That is, until a hidden message she finds from him leads her to a secret library that contains a whole lifetime full of secrets. This time-travelling middle grade is an adventure through time and space that examines families both found and made, race, and the unlimited bounds of curiosity.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Nino Cipri |Sarah Albee |Renée Watson |Dan Paley
Nino Cipri. Holt, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-2507-9140-5Teenage Riley Walcott knows all the stories about Voynich Woods and the cryptids rumored to inhabit it, and exploring it proves to be an apt outlet through which she processes her grief over her mother’s abandonment of the family.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Phillip Hoose |Jenn Bailey |Renée Watson |Sarah Albee
Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose, illus. by Bea Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38973-4Previous collaborators and National Book Award winners Colvin and Hoose reteam to relate the actions of a young Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) in reaction to segregation in Montgomery, Ala.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Renée Watson |Sarah Albee |Dan Paley
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
hereisoregon.com | Janet Eastman |Renée Watson
I See My Light Shining oral histories Mariah Taylor, front, shared her life story of surviving the 1948 Vanport flood in the digital “I See My Light Shining” oral history collections, which was celebrated at The World Stage Theatre in Southeast Portland June 23, 2024.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
opb.org | Gemma DiCarlo |Renée Watson
Renée Watson has topped bestseller lists and won multiple awards for her children’s and young adult literature. But the author, who splits her time between Portland and New York City, recently released “skin & bones,” her first book for adults. The story follows 40-year-old Lena Baker as she navigates dating, fat-shaming, friendship and motherhood while also working to bring Oregon’s Black history to the general public.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
bkreader.com | Renée Watson |Xochitl Gonzalez
The Brooklyn Public Library is offering a series of author talks throughout spring. These programs are offered free of charge and are open to the public, although reservations are recommended.
Authors include Ari Berman, Renée Watson, Xochitl Gonzalez and more, according to a news release.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
mindfullibrarian.substack.com | Renée Watson
Hello readers! Today’s newsletter is a special Sunday treat with a new recipe and a collection of some spectacular recent middle grade and young adult reads. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!I recently went to the kitchen to make a batch of my decades-long favorite granola and was devastated to find that the recipe was no longer hanging on the fridge where it had been for EVER. I searched and searched and it was just ….. gone.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
theedadvocate.org | Matthew Lynch |Renée Watson |Ellen Hagan |Octavia E. Butler
Reading & Literacy Home›Reading & Literacy›30 Young Adult Books with Social Justice Themes By Matthew LynchFebruary 23, 20240 Spread the loveIntroduction:Social justice has become an increasingly important theme in young adult literature, addressing issues such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and economic disparity. These books encourage readers to challenge prejudices, empower themselves, and advocate for a fairer society.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
fromthemixedupfiles.com | Renée Watson |Melissa Roske |Mindy Weiss
My friend Nicole—a fellow only child—recently sent me an article from The Atlantic entitled, “Why Are People Weird About Only Children?” Not surprisingly, the piece included the usual tropes associated with onlies: We’re spoiled, selfish, maladjusted weirdos who can’t get along with others or share our toys. We’re also bad at team sports, cooperative projects, and group-socialization in general. Why?
